Similarities to Hard West

[W.A.V.E]

As someone who played Hard West this on a glance looks similar.

- Artstyle,
- Isometric view,
- Overworld map,
- The supernatural theme of the game,
- Quirks,
- Game Description ( Journey through the origin stories of a group of atypical heroes in an unforgiving land ) again similar to HW.

The gameplay portion appears to differ a bit whether it truly is for now remains unclear. Hard West was turn based combat, but this looks to be real time(?) though again I'm not sure about that.

I love everything wild west related and I'm putting it on my wishlist. Unfortunately for me at this moment it looks like something I've already played. So how similar/different to Hard West is this game gonna be ? What are you trying to give us with this game ?

[Foolswalkin]

My guess is that most games can easily be chunked into similar categories ("Shooter" "modern setting" or "MMO" "high fantasy setting"). And maybe every RPG tries to meet that game description?

Weird westerns are a whole genre of fiction and gaming (the Deadlands games, arguably the Silver John stories) and it's up to you whether you want to dig back into a hybrid paranormal Old West.

Hard West was not particularly well reviewed, so my main hope is that this game distinguishes itself by being *good.*

[rusty_dragon]

Originally posted by The Senate:

As someone who played Hard West this on a glance looks similar.

- Artstyle,
- Isometric view,
- Overworld map,
- The supernatural theme of the game,
- Quirks,
- Game Description ( Journey through the origin stories of a group of atypical heroes in an unforgiving land ) again similar to HW.

The gameplay portion appears to differ a bit whether it truly is for now remains unclear. Hard West was turn based combat, but this looks to be real time(?) though again I'm not sure about that.

I love everything wild west related and I'm putting it on my wishlist. Unfortunately for me at this moment it looks like something I've already played. So how similar/different to Hard West is this game gonna be ? What are you trying to give us with this game ?

Since game is claimed to be immersive sim, it would be totally different to what you've played in Hard West.

[his1roguenation]

Thankfully Hard West was great and any game similar to it, with some heart put into it, must be played.

[rusty_dragon]

Originally posted by his1roguenation:

Thankfully Hard West was great and any game similar to it, with some heart put into it, must be played.

I don't see it to be similar except for top-down view and Wild West+Supernatural theme. Both of which happened in the past. You'll likely find it very different except for those things. Especially gameplay-wise. )
And I'm certain it's not being inspured by Hard West. The thing is those developers just went from making AAA big budget games to indie. You need to cut expences somewhere. Hence the top-down view.
But same time I guess you won't be disappointed if you want to find similar thing to Hard West. It's just game not being turn-based tactics. So stay tuned. ;)

[FateWeaver]

There is another neat Weird West setting game that I came over recently. I Don't know if you guys know of it, but I will link it here. ^ ^
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059150/Ritual_Crown_of_Horns/

Oh, and I almost forgot, this one too. And it got Ron Perlman as a voice actor.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1016790/West_of_Dead/
Its got a free beta as well.

[CitizenX3639]

Originally posted by his1roguenation:

Thankfully Hard West was great and any game similar to it, with some heart put into it, must be played.

Totally agree, since the other Hard West clone(The Feud) looks to be cancelled.

[maximus1245]

Check out Shadow Tactics and Desperados 3, really similiar and highyl polished! (Speaking for shadow tactics, desperados 3 is out next week). Give them a look, highly recommended.

[icED-e@RtH]

12 is better than 6
https://store.steampowered.com/app/410110/12_is_Better_Than_6/

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And finally, the sequel for Hard West is in development:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1282410/Hard_West_2/

[grigoriprime]

It’s very strongly influenced by hard west, but hard west didn’t exactly invent the genre. They're both fun IMO.

Playing them back to back would feel a bit repetitive, but they definitely have their own flavors of narrative. Same with the gameplay, RPG element implementation, and the mechanism for switching characters.

So while there will be parts that feel somewhat familiar for sure, if you like one you are very probably going to enjoy the other. If you put a magic gun to my head I’d say HW is more interesting mechanically and is more polished, but WW’s world and characters are a bit more fun. Recruiting former PCs as party members is pretty neat as well.

(Thoroughly enjoyed both HW1 and WW, haven’t played HW2 yet but plan to. Like the weird west genre quite a bit in general so am slightly biased.)

[wicked lester]

Originally posted by grigoriprime:

It’s very strongly influenced by hard west, but hard west didn’t exactly invent the genre. They're both fun IMO.



(Thoroughly enjoyed both HW1 and WW, haven’t played HW2 yet but plan to. Like the weird west genre quite a bit in general so am slightly biased.)

On tabletop, Deadlands is my favourite setting, bar none.